Holt Advocates Steady Taxes and School Aid Plan
Charleston February eight. Governor Holt outlines a cautious economic course aimed at keeping the tax structure stable without increases or decreases while proposing aid for municipalities teachers' salaries and highways as pressing needs. He supports a state budget of sixty two million dollars and suggests establishing a legislative research bureau and highway regulation. If funds permit he hopes to improve the school system and provide for public servants, noting county levies may supplement salaries when state funds fall short.
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Charleston
Holt
Aska
Legislative Research Bureau
County Boards of Education
Lewis Turns to Own Union in Mine Wage Push
Washington reports John L. Lewis will return to the soft coal field February 17 to press for higher wages and longer hours for United Mine Workers. He seeks a 30 four week contract with no pay reduction, while operators demand an 8 hour day and current pay terms. A possible April 1 strike looms if talks fail.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
New York
Lewis
Malaga under siege as fascists close in
Thousands of Malaga residents face terror as Fascist forces hammer the city gates and cut land and sea exits. Observers describe the scene as chaos with anarchists roaming the streets and fires raging while defenses crumble amid a swift insurgent advance.
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Malaga
Mediterranean
Shingleton Ready to Become Bus Safety Director
Charleston February 8 The state police superintendent P D Shingleton began cleaning his desk today and prepared to assume his new post as safety and personnel director for Atlantic Greyhound Lines on March 1 Governor Holt offered no comment on a successor to the World War veteran who has led since March 4 1933 Some observers expect Holt to choose from the ranks while others favor a legislator.
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Charleston
P.D. Shingleton
Atlantic Greyhound Lines
Holt
Assailant of Owner of Beer Garden Is Hunted
State police sought a warrant for Paul Heller in connection with a shooting at a self-serve beer parlor in Craigsville. Denver Mullens, 26, proprietor, was wounded seriously and could not explain the motive.
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Richwood
Paul Heller
Denver Mullens
Craigsville
Mullens
Indianapolis Couple Suffer Double Robberies
In Indianapolis on February 8, Mr and Mrs Harry Weidenfeld faced a double robbery in their grocery store and home. Bandits escaped with 55 dollars from the shop and about 3000 dollars in jewelry money and postal savings certificates from the residence.
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Indianapolis
Harry Weidenfeld
Weidenfelds
World Prayer Day Observed In Grafton This Friday
The first Friday in Lent designated as World Day of Prayer will be observed in Grafton at 10 a m next Friday at the First Christian church on McGraw avenue and Beech street. Christians in more than 50 countries will bow in prayer at the same hour. Missionary societies in Grafton are expected to attend this six year old city service. A luncheon will follow at noon with a review of Livingstone's book The Singing Blacks presented by … Continued on page six.
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Grafton
First Christian Church
McGraw Avenue
Beech Street
Livingstone
Employment For Those Past Forty Is Studied
New York Republicans led by 49 year old liberal William S. Murray pushed for a legislative study to address discrimination against workers over 40. Murray, Utica chemical engineer and state Republican chairman, urged a committee to assess the scope of age bias and seek possible remedies before it deepens. Massachusetts also weighs the issue after a state law and industries department report found many employers discriminate against older workers.
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Albany
N. Y
New York
William S. Murray
Utica Chemical
Massachusetts
State ‘Department of Lawand Industries
Ben Butcher, Oldest House Member, Critical
Charleston reports hospital attaches said today that Ben Butcher, long time delegate and oldest member of the legislature, showed slight improvement after being stricken with pneumonia Saturday. Butcher first served in 1879 and also served in both houses of the Colorado legislature.
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Charleston
Ben Butcher
D.wood
Butcher
House of Delegates
Colorado
Taylor County Board of Trade Campaign Continues
The membership committee reports illness among workers has halted the canvass and postponed the reorganization meeting from Tuesday to a later date this week. About two thirds of the $5,000 budget has been subscribed despite incomplete canvass returns. Workers aim to finish by Wednesday evening with the date for the reorganization meeting to be set then. Subscriptions have been coming in voluntarily, though solicitors cannot reach every interested person. Continued on page six.
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Taylor County Board of Trade
Court House
G. T. Bartlett
Bartlett
Evans Reports On Church Men’s Program At Fairmont
Evans, a Fairmont member of the First Methodist church commission on men's work, spoke at Sunday school about world conditions, church work, and missions, predicting Christian leadership in Japan will prevail over military rule. He condemned two child marriages in Tennessee and New York, and noted Chinese critics of Western behavior.
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Fairmont
Charles ‘W. Evans
First Methodist Church
Chicago
M. E
Evans
Japan
Tennessee
New York State
Cyrus Kump Elected Randolph Bar Leader
Randolph County Bar association elected Cyrus W. Kump son of former Governor Kump as president succeeding A. E. Fiorentino While meeting in Elkins the group also recommended Judge J C McWhorter of Buckhannon sit as special judge for the February term due to the illness of Judge John F Brown
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Elkins
Randolph County Bar Association
Cyrus W. Kump
Kump
A. E. Fiorentino
J. C McWhorter
Buckhannon
John F. Brown
Slayer Blame Trial Highlights Widow Pact Claim
Fraser Pramesa asked Governor Holt to commute his death sentence for killing Louis Thames in Windsor Heights Brooke County last July. He claimed Pearl Thames wife of the victim planned the shooting and offered a guilty plea to first degree murder was advised by Edgar Minnich to seek life imprisonment.
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Charleston
Frank Pramesa
Holt
Pearl Thames
Pramesa
Louis Thames
Windsor Heights
Brooke County
Edgar E. Minnich
Promesa
Minnich
J. J. P. O'Brien
Thames
Half Dozen Roads Blocked By High Water In State
Heavy weekend rains in the north central region flooded several streams and shut down about six roads. Weston was isolated except for U S 19 south, the West Fork river blocked western city limits, and the Berlin Jane Lew detour remained impassable. The river hit 16 feet and rose four inches per hour, with Buckhannon River also out of its banks between Buckhannon and Weston.
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Charleston
Weston
U. S. 19
West Fork
Berlin
Jane Lew
Buckhannon
Buckhannon and
Itinerant coal miner held for wife slaying in Colorado
LEADVILLE Colo Feb 8 Officers said an itinerant coal miner confessed to two killings one in Alabama The man named Carl Cook 44 confessed he killed his wife after finding cigarette butts about their auto trailer home and deciding she was two timing him Sheriff Calvert said he later admitted he was Hugh Burdine and had fled Alabama after killing Reuben Chipwood with a rock during a 1935 Fort Payne fight Travison said the miner said he beat his wife to death with a wrench Friday night in their Climax home His eldest child Avis nine had told him a man was hanging around here.
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Leadville
Colo
Alabama
Angelo Travisioni
Carl Cook
Charles Calvert
Hugh Burdine
Reuben Chipwood
Fort Payne
Travison
Climax
Avis
New Japanese Premier Seeks Peace in the East
Tokyo reports Premier Senjuro Hasashi unveiled a five point foreign policy aimed at peace in the Orient after a cabinet session. He pledged firm responses to hostility and indicated resignation if deadlock mirrors the Hirota demise. The plan includes educating the public on government structure and advancing constitutional government.
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East
Tokyo
Senjuro Hasashi
Koki Hirota
Blundering Charge Follows Flood Retreat Evacuation Flayed
MEMPHIS, Feb. American reports criticize federal flood predictions as faulty after high water retreated from the Mississippi. Greenville Rotary Club denounces officials for unwarranted disaster forecasts and urges return to normal business in Washington county. They condemn the Yazoo basin evacuation idea and criticize press handling of flood news while engineers reduce working forces and maintain levee safety.
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Waver Dave
Greenville
Miss
Rotary Club
Washington County
Delta
Washington
Army High Command
Mississippi River
Cairo
New Orleans
Yazoo Basin
Army Engineers
Parley on GM strike nears end with stalled recognition demand
Detroit February meeting between General Motors and striking workers neared its second week as unions pressed for representation in 20 plants while GM stood firm on speaking for its own members only. Officials noted hundreds of proposals had been studied and a plebiscite option was discussed but likely delayed a resolution.
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Detroit
General Motors
Hones
Murphy
Mystery Bottle Holds Cough Syrup Not TNT
In San Antonio on February 8 a bottle believed to contain nitroglycerin was discovered. Explosives expert Captain Cliff Ramschis carried it 20 miles away and shattered it, revealing the liquid to be cough syrup.
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T.N.T
San Antonio
Tex
Cliff Ramschissel
Two Former Prison Inmates Arrested In Fiend Slaying
Buffalo police reportedly held two ex convicts who had attacked women in the past in connection with the knife killing of 19 year old Mary Ellen Babcock on Friday night. Police officials denied custody and offered competing accounts while in Rochester an 18 year old hiker questioned about the crime was picked up on the highway.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Evening News
Mary Ellen Babcock
James Wriggins
Rochester
Elihu Root Funeral Set At Hamilton College
New York, Feb 8. Elihu Root died at 91 after a long career as lawyer, statesman and diplomat. Simple funeral services will be held on the Hamilton College campus in Clinton, New York, his alma mater, with burial in Clinton. Root rose to international prominence in McKinley and Roosevelt administrations and after World War I.
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New York
Elihu Root
Hamilton College
Clinton
N. Y
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Negro on murder trial in Queens court
Major Green a 33 year old negro stands trial in Queens County for strangling Mrs Mary Robinson Case in her Jackson Heights apartment January 11. His lawyers seek an insanity defense while police assign special guards to prevent a repeat disturbance as angry women protested during his arrest. The trial occurs in the same court that sentenced Ruth Snyder and Judd Grey a decade ago for killing Mrs Snyder's husband.
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New York
Green
Mary Robinson
Jackson Heights
Queens County
Ruth Snyder
Judd Grey
Prominent Minister of Fairmont Resigns to Lead Board
Dr. George E. Bevans longtime pastor of First Presbyterian Fairmont resigns effective April 1 to become secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education with headquarters in Philadelphia. Bevans came to Fairmont May 1 1925 from Elizabeth New Jersey where he led Greystone Presbyterian. He succeeded Dr. H G Stoetzer who retired as pastor emeritus after more than 25 years. Stoetzer died several years later.
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Fairmont
George E. Bevans
First Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
Philadelphia
Bevans
Elizabeth
N. J
Greystone Presbyterian Church
H. G. Stoetzer
Dr. Stoetzer
Half of Huntington School Children Return After Flood
Cabell county schools resumed for about half of the 20,000 pupils after a two week flood vacation. County Superintendent RB B Marston said the rest would wait another week or more until schools are cleared of refugees and made inhabitable.
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Huntington
Cabell County
RB. B. Marston
New Beer Law Expedited in Charleston Session
In Charleston on February 8, legislators expect Governor Holt to deliver a message and a model beer regulation measure may be sent this week. Senator Howard notes work nearly finished on proposals from the joint beer committee, including Sunday sales ban, standardization, and dispenser regulations. The governor's 3 PM address will cover fiscal affairs. committees anticipate postponing bill action until next week amid consumer tax debates.
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Charleston
Holt
Howard
Wood
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